Environmental Studies

Environmental studies at Bowdoin reflects the College's recognition that humans must learn to live in harmony with nature and that human activities are dependent upon natural processes.

Students Witness the Fine Art of Metal Casting
Professor Jackie Brown’s mold-making and casting class enjoys a visit to the Green Foundry in Eliot, Maine, where art is made from metal.
A Senior Looks into the Real Story of Climate Migrants
Tharun Vemulapalli ’19 launched a yearlong honors project to understand how climate change is displacing people—and what can be done to help them.
In the Field: Tagging Bear Cubs in Northern Maine
Students in Patty Jones’s BIOL 3308/ENVS3308 course, Research in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, traveled to the northern part of the state to meet with bear biologists from Maine's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Student Research

"The Progressive Roots of ALEC: Familial Wealth and Anti-Democracy in the Conservation Era", February, 28, 2019

Environmental Studies Newsletter
Kent Island

Students Witness the Fine Art of Metal Casting

A Senior Looks into the Real Story of Climate Migrants

In the Field: Tagging Bear Cubs in Northern Maine

Historian Joseph E. Taylor III

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